DAVIS, Mendel Jackson, a Representative from South Carolina; born in North Charleston,
Charleston County, S.C., October 23, 1942; attended the North Charleston public
schools; B.S., College of Charleston, 1966; J.D., University of South Carolina
School of Law, 1970; admitted to the South Carolina bar in 1970 and commenced
practice in North Charleston; district assistant to Congressman L. Mendel
Rivers for ten years; elected as a Democrat to the Ninety-second Congress, by
special election, to fill the vacancy caused by the death of United States
Representative L. Mendel Rivers, and reelected to the four succeeding
Congresses (April 27, 1971-January 3, 1981); was not a candidate for reelection
to the Ninety-eighth Congress in 1980; resumed the practice of law; died on May
13, 2007, in Charleston, S.C.